This contemplative piece for pierrot ensemble was inspired by Great Basin National Park. It was commissioned in 2022 by the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble with a grant from the Natio...
A charming piece in three movements that finds musical ways of expressing some of the funnier frankenwords that have crept into common use - frenemy", glamping", and hangry. Sure to be an audience fa...
The Carmel (IN) High School Orchestra will present the world premiere of the newly-commissioned work The Knobstone Trail at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago, December 18, 2019. Stephen Lias has for many...
Lias pays homage to Bernard Hermann, whose film scores have given us all chills for many years (Psycho, Vertigo, Taxi Driver, North by Northwest, Cape Fear, Marnie, etc. ). Pursued immediately sets th...
Lias was fortunate to live for a week within the wilderness of Denali, a guest of the Denali Arts and Humanities Alliance. How humbling, how joyful an experience to explore this inspiring Alaskan land...
Ebullience for Trumpet Ensemble is a full-bodied concert piece, ranging from clarion fanfares to soft dynamicism, with a catchy main theme throughout. Campo has successfully expanded the piece into fu...
With a touch of Hitchcockian drama, mystery, and suspense, Pursued evokes a frenzied chase scene. A brief respite is fraught with tension, and then the chase resumes. A dynamic soundscape for advanced...
Attending a workshop in New York City, Lias took an evening excursion to the American Ballet Theatre, where he was exposed to what he terms 'the evocative and inflammatory music of the tarantella. ' T...
